Atheist Republic DEMONITIZED on YouTube!

On March 8th, 2021, it was brought to the attention of Atheist Republic leadership that their Youtube Channel had been demonetized.

Members of the Atheist Republic community that support the YouTube channel financially, received an email notifying them that their memberships had been paused.

YouTube has notified Atheist Republic that the channel was demonetized for containing “harmful or hateful conduct.” More specifically; “content that is incendiary, demeaning, or promoting violence or hatred, especially on the basis of protected characteristics.”

YouTube has demonetized the channel despite only receiving one previous strike, for a video that does not in fact violate YouTube’s Community standards.

YouTube has not provided any further explanation or specified what exactly was the offending content. This provides us with no clarity on how we can correct the problem, and prevent this from happening again in the future.

The money that we earn from our English channel is enough to pay the monthly wages of one of our employees.
If we reach 1000 patrons, we will be able to keep paying all of our team members without ever having to worry about being demonetized or removed from any platform ever again. Please help us get there by supporting our work on Patreon.

We can reapply for the YouTube Partnership Program to earn our monetization back in one month, after removing the problematic videos & content. However, with no feedback from YouTube on what protected group or class we were allegedly hateful towards, or in what specific video, we can’t tell what videos to delete.

If you have any advice in figuring out how to find and remove the problematic videos before we reapply in a month, or if you have any connections to anyone who works at YouTube who can help us gain clarity, please let us know by contacting our CEO at susanna@atheistrepublic.com.

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